nope, that's a new one on me...
Posted on 05/05/2012 10:25:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Well, I would have thought that, but that chart specifically states that Java is client-side.
I go back to Athena, News, Open look, Motif, awt, SWING all MIT X!! stuff! etc.
I've worked on RSX11, VAX VMS, Multics, IBM MVS/CMS and UNIX since system III around 1977 in all three/four family trees - AT&T SYSTEM 5 Release X, UCB 3.l and 4.X, AIX, Solaris X, HP UX, and most vaiants of Linux.
Have “man -s 2, 3 and 3c XXX” both classic and POSIX memorized - actually have nightmares about it! (LOL).
My all time favorite is K & R C. No computer training is complete without these classics
“The White Book”, Kernighan and Ritchie “The C Programming Language”. Hello World. We're not worthy (LOL).
Kernighan & Pike, “The UNIX programming Environment”
Stevens “UNIX NETWORK PROGRAMMING”,
Bjarne Stroustrup “The Annotated C++ Reference Manual”,
and the Classic “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” by the committee of four.
Lately I've been working on ESB/SOA Enterprise Service Bus/Service Oriented Architecture software using Mule, Camel, activeMQ and QPID in JAVA with the Eclipse IDE from IBM.
My brain hurts!
nope, that's a new one on me...
If you’re a typical computer science grad today, there is COBOL code in production that is older than you are.
Thanks for all the copypasta. Your assumption that I have no idea what I’m looking at is particularly endearing.
RE: Your assumption that I have no idea what I’m looking at is particularly endearing.
And why would you think that? That thought never crossed my mind.
Ruby has great regrex support built in. Java (finally) now has library support now.
I’m surprised C would be above Java. I can’t believe JavaScript is that low. I think JavaScript engineers are in the greatest demand.
I miss “Circuit Cellar”...
Started with DEC Basic-Plus, then did DG’s mini-computer version of COBOL, then 8080 Assembler code and FORTRAN in college.
After college, did APL, VAX COBOL, VAX VMS, C/C++, UNIX scripts, and PL/SQL. Used VMS’ recursion properties to write a full-screen editor for VMS scripts in VMS...
Now, any “coding” is Excel or VBS scripts, generally...
A decent Cobol programmer can write his own ticket now, and for the foreseeable future.
It’s still heavily used. And we’re not talking some nickel and dime mom and pop hardware store chain.
We’re talking Fortune 500 companies with hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
Heh; I wish I still remembered it. No I don’t; I’m retired now. Not going back, no way, no how.
ALGOL anyone? :-)
I knew someone would bring that up. That was the first language I learned back in 1970. Great for learning concepts, not so great for other things. Never played with JOVIAL.
One word.....Delegates.
ALGOL’s mission in life was to describe algorithms. Pure ALGOL has no input/output statements. Its reserved words were in bold font - try that on your keypunch! :-) It was never meant to be compiled and run.
One of the Junior year projects was to write a compiler in ALGOL, generating MIX code (Ref. Donald Knuth). After getting the punch card output back we ran it through the MIX interpreter to assess the results.
Fortran 77.
Teaches you the basics, which are applicable throughout all other languages.
I’m glad to see Pascal show up; I developed several real-time applications in that language. An even more elegant language was Modula-2; unfortunately it never really caught on except for some lively CompSci discussions!
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